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- STUD. No. 329,754. Patented Nov. 3, 1885.

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GEORGE N. MARCH, OF WATERTOWN, MASS, ASSIGNOR, BY MEsNEAssIGN- MENTS, TO THE FIBERLENE COLLAR COMPANY, or PORTLAND, ME.

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SPIEKJIZE'ICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329.754, dated November 3, 1885.

Application filed June 9, 1885. Serial No. 168,190.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE N. MARCH, of Watertown, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Studs, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective view representing a ladys collar provided with a cape and having its ends secured by my improved stud; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the stud detached, its arms being represented as closed; Fig. 3, a rear elevation of the same, the arms being represented as open, or bent outwardly and down upon the body or head of the stud; Fig. 4, a top or plan view of a collar the ends of which are represented as fastened or secured by my improved stud, and Fig. 5 a like view, the ends being represented! as secured by an ordinary stud.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawin s.

lrly invention relates to that class of studs which are employed for fastening or securing the ends of collars, cuffs, &c. more especially those worn byladies; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more. fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a more effective and otherwise desirable article of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such (No model.)

disposed in juxtaposition and their outer ends slightly enlarged laterally and rounded, as shown at x. Thebody is preferably composed of metal, but may be made of stone, glass,

rubber, or any other suitable material, and

but as the shank is sometimes longer than the 6 5 diameter or thickness of the overlapped ends of the collar with which the stud is used said ends are liable to gape or open, as shown in Fig. 5, when the collar is worn, thereby giving it an untidy appearance. is designed to obviate this objection; and to that end I omit the disk or button of the stud and also its rigid shank, and in lieu thereof employ the flexible arms B O, which in use are passed from the front through the stud 75 holes in the ends f z of the collar and bent down flat onto the inner face of the end 2, as shown in Fig. 4, thereby securely fastening said ends together and preventing them from gaping or spreading apart. stood that the arms BGare sufficiently resiliem and rigid to keep their places or stay in position after being bent down onto the inner face of the collar, as described, and also sufficiently flexible to enable them to be easily 85 straightened and the stud readily removed when desired. The enlarged and rounded ends 00 are designed to be of such size as to require the exertion of a slight amount of force to push them through the stud-holes, so 0 that in case the stud should become loose by the arms getting accidentally unbent it will not be so liable to be lost as though said arms were not thus enlarged. I do not, however,

confine myself to enlarging the arms at their 95 free ends, as described, although I deem it preferable to do so; neither do I confine my self to making them flat, as they may be made in any other suitable form; nor to using the stud for collars exclusively, as it will be ob- 10o Ordinary studs My invention It will be under- Vious that it is well adapted for cuffs, 8a)., Having thus explained my invention, what and also for a bosom-stud, the arms being I claim is passed through a stud-hole in the bosom when 'The improved collar-stud herein described, so used and bent down onto the inner side of the same consisting of the head or body A 15 the same. Neither do Iconfine myself to con- I and arms B 0, provided with the enlarged neoting the arms B 0 independently to the ends as, constructed, combined, and arranged head or body-A, as they may be made integral to operate substantially as described.

or united with each other at the point'where they join said body, if desired, although it is preferable to have them separated their entire length, or nearly so.

GEORGE N. MARCH. Witnesses G. A. SHAW, L. J. 'WHITEp 

